Long Walk of the Navajo

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The Long Walk of the Navajo was the forced mid-19th-century relocation of the Navajo people by the U.S. government, involving brutal marches to an internment camp at Bosque Redondo in what is now New Mexico.

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Label Occurrences
Long Walk of the Navajo canonical 8
Long Walk 1
Navajo Long Walk 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic cleansing
forced march
forced relocation
historical event
alsoKnownAs Long Walk of the Navajo
surface form: Long Walk

Long Walk of the Navajo
surface form: Navajo Long Walk
appliesToJurisdiction New Mexico Territory
cause U.S. military campaign against the Navajo
expansionist policies of the United States
commemoratedBy educational programs about Navajo history
memorials on the Navajo Nation
country United States of America
surface form: United States
describedAs brutal march
forced displacement
endDate 1866
hasEffect disruption of Navajo culture
disruption of Navajo economy
disruption of Navajo social structures
hasTheme colonial violence
forced assimilation policies
loss of land
survival and resilience of the Navajo people
historicalPeriod mid-19th century
location Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation
surface form: Bosque Redondo

Fort Sumner
surface form: Fort Sumner, New Mexico Territory

Navajo homelands in the American Southwest
numberOfPeopleAffected thousands of Navajo people
opposedBy some U.S. officials critical of Bosque Redondo policy
participant Navajo people
partOf Indian Removal policy of the United States
surface form: United States Indian removal policies

history of New Mexico
history of United States–Native American relations
history of the Navajo Nation
perpetrator United States Army
United States government
recognizedBy Navajo Nation as a defining historical trauma
result death of many Navajo people
internment of Navajo people at Bosque Redondo
long-term trauma for the Navajo Nation
loss of Navajo traditional homelands
routeEnd Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation
surface form: Bosque Redondo
routeStart Navajo homelands in present-day Arizona
Navajo homelands in present-day New Mexico
significantPlace Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation
surface form: Bosque Redondo Reservation

Fort Sumner
startDate 1863

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Navajo people historicalEvent Long Walk of the Navajo
Navajo Wars hasPart Long Walk of the Navajo
Long Walk of the Navajo alsoKnownAs Long Walk of the Navajo
this entity surface form: Navajo Long Walk
Long Walk of the Navajo alsoKnownAs Long Walk of the Navajo
this entity surface form: Long Walk
Treaty of 1868 historicalContext Long Walk of the Navajo
Treaty of 1868 precededBy Long Walk of the Navajo
James Henry Carleton notableFor Long Walk of the Navajo
Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation partOf Long Walk of the Navajo
Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation event Long Walk of the Navajo